FCS Polls

[JackJD]

Doing some catching up. The following is Sagarin rating as of 11/23/24. Please note: I'm cutting and pasting the following from SoCalBison on Bisonville (SoCalBison posted this info on 11/24/24).

Sagarin Rating / Team / (Change from LW) / Seed

34 SDSU (up 6) 3
44 NDSU (down 3) 2
63 Montana State (up 7) 1
68 South Dakota (up 4) 4
102 UC Davis (down 7) 5
114 Illinois State (up 9) 12
116 Incarnate Word (down 3) 6
117 Idaho (up 5) 8
118 Montana (down 6) 14
124 Missouri State (down 9) Playoff ineligible
126 Mercer (up 3) 7
130 Richmond (up 10) 9
132 Tarleton State (up 9) 13
137 Villanova (up 7) 11
145 New Hampshire (up 8) 16
151 Rhode Island (down 3) 10
162 Abilene Christian (down 13) 15

Unseeded

125 Northern Arizona (up 1)
134 Tennessee-Martin (down 6)
164 Eastern Kentucky (down 3)
167 Lehigh (up 12)
168 Tennessee State (up 7)
169 Southeastern Missouri (down 6)
202 Drake (up 6)
217 Central Connecticut State (up 8)

Direct Comparison of Seed-Sagarin
Seed / Sagarin* / Team

1 3 Montana State
2 2 NDSU
3 1 SDSU
4 4 South Dakota
5 5 UC Davis
6 7 Incarnate Word
7 12 Mercer
8 8 Idaho
9 13 Richmond
10 28 Rhode Island
11 17 Villanova
12 6 Illinois State
13 14 Tarleton State
14 9 Montana
15 35 Abilene Christian
16 25 New Hampshire

*Sagarin-rated #115 Missouri State is ineligible, but is ranked 10th in FCS this week.

[JackJD]

Here are the Sagarin ratings as of 11/30/24...as in the case of the immediately preceding post, I am taking the liberty of cutting and pasting the following from SoCalBirson's post today on Bisonville. SoCalBison did a good job of cutting and pasting info from Sagarin (and I'm not going to go to the trouble of duplicating the effort!).

Sagaring website: http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm

Sagarin Rating / Team / (Change from LW) / Seed

36 SDSU (down 2) 3
45 NDSU (down 1) 2
62 Montana State (up 1) 1
67 South Dakota (up 1) 4
103 UC Davis (down 1) 5
115 Illinois State (down 1) 12
116 Montana (up 2) 14
117 Incarnate Word (down 1) 6
119 Idaho (down 2) 8
124 Missouri State (unchanged) Playoff ineligible
126 Mercer (unchanged) 7
128 Tarleton State (up 4) 13
121 Tennessee-Martin (up 13) Unseeded
136 Richmond (down 6) 9 Eliminated
138 Northern Arizona (down 13) Unseeded and Eliminated
139 Villanova (down 2) 11
144 Abilene Christian (up 18) 15
156 Lehigh (up 11) Unseeded
158 Rhode Island (down 7) 10
162 Eastern Kentucky (up 2) Unseeded and Eliminated
167 New Hampshire (down 22) 16 Eliminated
169 Southeastern Missouri (unchanged) Unseeded and Eliminated
171 Tennessee State (down 3) Unseeded and Eliminated
202 Drake (unchanged) Unseeded and Eliminated
211 Central Connecticut State (up 6) Unseeded and Eliminated

Playoff Week 2 Matchups with Sagarin Rating (Predicted Margin of Victory*)

Villanova 53.95 at Incarnate Word 59.11 (8.31)
Rhode Island 50.70 at Mercer 56.82 (9.27)
Montana 59.14 at SDSU 78.10 (22.11)
Tennessee-Martin 58.14 at Montana State 71.81 (16.81)
Abilene Christian 53.54 at NDSU 75.73 (25.34)
Tarleton State 56.01 at South Dakota 70.58 (17.72)
Illinois State 59.39 at UC Davis 62.55 (6.31)
Lehigh 51.12 at Idaho 58.85 (10.88)

*Includes home field advantage of 3.15